More on FOIA

May 20th, 2009 at 05:45pm Wally Haas

Here’s a LINK to a news story about the original FOIA bill. Our editorial is HERE. Springfield just posted this STORY.

IPA just sent this:

This morning we informed IPA members of the highlights contained in the most recent FOIA draft put together with the input of the Attorney’s Generals Office, the Illinois Press Association and other proponents of FOIA reform.

However, the IPA has received a new draft of the FOIA reform bill and it now appears that many of the changes that we told you about this morning have been left out.  In fact, the bill has changed radically from what we thought would be the final, or at least close to, final version.  The IPA does not know the reason for these changes, nor have we endorsed any of them.

Both the IPA Board of Directors and Government Relations Committee will be meeting tomorrow to discuss this most recent draft and will issue a statement shortly thereafter.

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